Università Roma Tre

Introduction to hydrology; the water cycle and water balance; general information on the hydrological models; genesis of rainfall; spatial-temporal distribution of rainfall and their spatial average; stochastic interpolation.
Water flow in saturated porous media; the scale effect; REV and the Darcy scale; Dupuit approximation; flow equations at the local and regional scales; transmissivity and storativity; boundary conditions; types of solutions; direct and inverse problems;
Water flow in unsaturated porous media; pedofunctions; Richards equation; infiltration and redistribution.
Well hydraulics; analysis of pumping well; characteristic curve; pumping tests and diagnostic curves.
Evaporation; energy and aerodynamic method; mixed method; practical formulas.
Mechanisms of streamflow generation; losses; rainfall-runoff lumped models; IUH and WFIUH; parameter estimation.
Elements of contaminant hydrogeology.

Exercises: studies on surface and subsurface hydrology based on the use of commercial software (HEC-HMS and MODFLOW)

“Physical Hydrology”, Dingmann, Prentice Hall ; Chapters: 2, 3.1, 4.1, 4.3, 6, 7.1, 7.7,7.8, 8, 9
“Applied Hydrology”, Chow et al., McGraw-Hill
“Handbook of Hydrology”, Maidment, McGraw-Hill
“Quantitative Hydrogeology”, deMarsily, Academic Press
“Rainfall-Runoff Modelling: The Primer”, Beven, Wiley
“Applied Groundwater Modeling”, Anderson e Woessner, Academic Press
“Idrologia tecnica”, Moisello, La Goliardica Pavese